it, having been first sanctified ourselves.231 Further, He says to them, “Your new moons and your Sabbaths I cannot endure.”232 Ye perceive how He speaks: Your present Sabbaths are not acceptable to Me, but that is which I have made, [namely this,] when, giving rest to all things, I shall make a beginning of the eighth day, that is, a beginning of another world. Wherefore, also, we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead.233 And234 when He had manifested Himself, He ascended into the heavens. 231 Cod. Sin. reads, “Shall we not then?” 232 Isa. i. 13. 233 “Barnabas here bears testimony to the observance of the Lord’s Day in early times.”—Hefele. 234 We here follow the punctuation of Dressel: Hefele places only a comma between the clauses, and inclines to think that the writer implies that the ascension of Christ took place on the first day of the week. 395 Chapter XV.—The false and the true Sabbath.